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    Challenges→The Dharmadhātu (Realm of Reality) is neither wholesome nor unwholesome.

    If primordial purity is a genuine attribute of the Dharmadhātu, then wholesomeness applies to it in a supramundane sense, contra the claim of moral neutrality.

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    • 1.Primordial purity entails freedom from defilement, which mirrors the Buddhist ideal of non-harming—a supramundane ethical principle.
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    • 2.If Dharmadhātu possesses intrinsic properties (purity), those properties can ground ethical facts about what accords with ultimate reality.
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    • 3.Moral neutrality cannot coherently apply to that which is fundamentally untainted; purity itself entails an evaluative dimension.
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    • 1.Dharmadhātu transcends all conceptual categories including 'pure' and 'impure'—attributing either risks reifying empty phenomena.
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    • 2.Supramundane ethics concern liberation from craving and attachment, not metaphysical attributes of an unconditioned absolute.
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    • 3.Wholesomeness applies to conditioned intentions and acts; applying it to unconditioned reality conflates two distinct Buddhist frameworks.
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